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Old 06-10-2009
Problem with putty and password
I am using putty to ssh into my linux machine, I followed the steps to create password less authentication.

1. generated both private and public key
2. copied the public key over to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file
3. loaded Private key with pagent (when it didnt work i used Auth in Putty to loaded it).
4. when i log in, it is still asking for password.

Please help
# 2  
Old 06-17-2009
In step 2, you created an empty authorized_keys file and copied and pasted the public key in puttygen's "public key for pasting into authorized_keys" window? Or did you copy puttygen's public key file over. The first one is the correct method.
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Old 06-17-2009
it was actually a permission problem, the user had a write permission for others, that was a no-no for passwordless ssh, so i changed the permission back to the default permission for users.

thnaks
 
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